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<td class="v">23:1</td>
<td>Then Job answered and said,</td>
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<td class="v">23:2</td>
<td>Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.</td>
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<td class="v">23:3</td>
<td>Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!</td>
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<td class="v">23:4</td>
<td>I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.</td>
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<td class="v">23:5</td>
<td>I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.</td>
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<td class="v">23:6</td>
<td>Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.</td>
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<td class="v">23:7</td>
<td>There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.</td>
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<td class="v">23:8</td>
<td>Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:</td>
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<td class="v">23:9</td>
<td>On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:</td>
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<td class="v">23:10</td>
<td>But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.</td>
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<td class="v">23:11</td>
<td>My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.</td>
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<td class="v">23:12</td>
<td>Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.</td>
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<td class="v">23:13</td>
<td>But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.</td>
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<td class="v">23:14</td>
<td>For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.</td>
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<td class="v">23:15</td>
<td>Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.</td>
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<td class="v">23:16</td>
<td>For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:</td>
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<td class="v">23:17</td>
<td>Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.</td>
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